Ground broken on China poultry processing project

Jiangsu Nanjing Jiangnan chicken and duck processing project is expected to slaughter as many as 50 million birds per year

Ground has been broken on a Jiangsu Nanjing
Jiangnan poultry processing project in China’s Jiangning District. The project
is expected to be put into operation in July.

As Nanjing’s first poultry processing
project, it will be focused on high-density chicken and duck slaughtering
processing.

According to a report from Nanjing Daily, the
project is to be carried out by Jiangsu Ninggong Zijin Food Industry Co. Ltd.,
which invested RMB550 million (US$88.7 million) for the first phase that
includes a live chicken production line that is capable of processing 100,000
birds per day, and a live duck production line that will be capable of
processing 50,000 birds per day. When completed, the poultry processing project
will be capable of slaughtering as many as 50 million birds on an annual basis.

“Nanjing consumes 200 million poultry birds
per year, with only one third raised locally,” said Chen Guajian, the chairman
of Ninggong Zijin.

The company is also planning to make an investment
in a chicken farm that will be capable of producing as many as 50 million
chickens per year, a forage field and 10 modern chicken farms that will have
the capacity to raise as many as 3 million chickens per year.